As promised, here are some snaps of the entries:
Full album here: http://picasaweb.google.com/smorgan74/PaintingCompetitions?authkey=Gv1sRgCPWNxNmoqPy9aA&feat=directlink

Queek Headtaker:

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Games Workshop ran a special event for the release of the new Skaven army this weekend - a painting competition. Pick up any of the new Skaven characters Saturday morning and turn it in by 3pm Sunday for judging. I picked up Warlord Queek:


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http://www.etc.cmu.edu/projects/surfacescapes/index.html

CMU's Entertainment Technology Center has done totally awesome geek things with Microsoft's surface technology. Check this out!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aymtpKzjXc0&feature=player_embedded

Okay, this is too damn funny:

http://www.flyweightfilms.com/featured/dark-elf-army-greatest-power-evil/

BOOM!

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=58023

Can't decide if this is going to be awesome or awesomely bad - in either case, I'll probably watch it.

So while eating lunch today, I was skimming channels and came across one of those truly horrible artifacts of the 80s: Solarbabies. You know, post-apocalyptic setting/rebellious kids on rollerskates in the desert (yes, the 4-wheeled kind, not even the later coolness of rollerblades - I mean, that was all Prayer for the Rollerboys and stuff). Anyway ( Read more... )

So a project I've been thinking about finally took shape today. As I mentioned a little while ago, Rory and I have been watching Card Captor Sakura as her first anime - she loves the show and I've seen her running about with her hobby horse 'capturing' cards. So I figured she needed her own wand, just like Sakura has. With a little balsa, basswood ( Read more... )

I recently reconnected with a very old friend of my childhood on facebook and it made me remember what it was like for me during those years. This was while we were in North Carolina and I was between 5 and 10 years old - we lived on a cul-de-sac in a suburban neighborhood. There were two other families that lived on the same street and both had ( Read more... )

http://www.mathstat.uottawa.ca/~rsmith/Zombies.pdf

So there it is - 8 days.